There's something intangible about flamenco, says Monica Mota. "It lights everything on fire, and you can't understand why," says Mota, who founded the Spokane-based group Quiero Flamenco. "You're ...
Jácome Flamenco has been infiltrating south Louisiana culture for the last three years. Sounds like a spy thriller, doesn’t it? No worries. The mission here isn’t to replace zydeco and Cajun music and ...
ROYAL PALM BEACH — Flamenco grounds you like no other dance, says Gabriela Reyes. "It takes you to the earth," she said. "And it feels like fire." She would know. She learned the dance in her native ...
When I was six and my sister was four, our parents, on holiday in Andalusia, bought us postcards of flamenco dancers. Mine had a yellow dress, and came wearing a real skirt made of lace-edged satin ...
For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...
Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention. By Marina Harss For Olga Pericet, flamenco is an invitation: to ...
Created in the southern Andalusia region of Spain, flamenco is rooted in the complex multi-cultural and ethnic society of southern Spain from the 16th and 17th centuries. Dancers in Spain recently ...
The pandemic placed competitive flamenco dancing on pause in Madrid. And for the dancers at the legendary Amor de Dios flamenco center, a return to in-person events means a return to the stage. Some ...
Two documentaries about flamenco dancing, part of Institute Cervantes’s Flamenco Film Series: Albertina Pisano’s 2004 short Flamenco Dancers (37 min.) focuses on four exemplars of the form, while ...
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